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Continuing Lecturer and Language Program Coordinator, Kirsten Harjes, is curating a film series at the Crocker art museum in Sacramento this winter and spring, to accompany the exhibition A Graphic Art: German Expressionist Prints 

Feb. 16: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Mar. 16:  The Blue Angel 

April 20:  Girls in Uniform

https://my.crockerart.org/germanexpressionism/853

Lecture | December 2 | 12-1:30 p.m. |  Zoom

Speaker:  Barbara Yelin, Graphic Novelist

Moderator:  Brett E. Sterling, Associate Professor of German in the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Arkansas

Register for this zoom event here: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsd-yprTMiHtdOCmjyfVAM3q7KRunc4PRr

Lecture | October 17 | 12-1:30 p.m. |  Zoom

Speaker:  Deniz Utlu, Author

Moderators:  Sultan Doughan, Dr Thomas Zand visiting assistant professor of Holocaust pedagogy and antisemitism studies at Clark University; Deniz Göktürk, Professor in the Department of German at UC Berkeley

Tom Smits is an Associate Professor in English and German Foreign Language Teaching and German Variational Linguistics at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). In 2021, he was appointed as Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University (South Africa) after a successful nomination by the Faculty of Education in recognition of his standing in the field of multilingualism and multiculturalism in education.

Fall 2022 is here!  Welcome back and to our incoming class of students.  Your Undergrad Advising team is excited to see you, whether in person or via remote appointments.  Please make an appointment from this link: https://appointments.ucdavis.edu/?office=39; or use our drop in advising Tuesday afternoon or Friday morning from this link: https://appointments.ucdavis.edu/?office=39

Virtual Drop-in Advising

Welcome back and to Fall quarter.  The Advising team is excited for another great year.  We are now able to offer virtual drop-in advising. Please visit this link, https://langlit.advisingfrontdesk.lsit.ucdavis.edu/signin, on Tuesday’s from 1:30-3pm or Friday 9-11am. We are looking forward to assisting you with your advising needs.

Read the full article here: https://www.ucdavis.edu/majors/blog/3-reasons-why-you-should-major-or-minor-language

Undergraduate Advising as a full team. Please welcome Anna Pendleton and Veronica Munoz! Make an appointment from the below link for any advising needs:

https://appointments.ucdavis.edu/?office=39

Greg Redmond, German Graduate Program Alum, and his wife, Carrie Cornwell, have issued a Give Day challenge:

"Taking a two-year break from practicing primary care medicine at UCDHs for 27 years, to complete a master's degree in German at UCD, saved my quality of life.

Organized by Deniz Göktürk, UC Berkeley, Department of German, Multicultural Germany Project, and Transit Journal, & Elisabeth Krimmer, UC Davis, German Department, Migration and Aesthetics Project 

Ilija Trojanow, in Conversation with Chunjie Zhang Oct 1, 2021 from 12:00 - 1:30 pm

Hosted by the Department of German and Russian

RSVP Required - Click here to submit your RSVP

About this talk:

Welcome Back! The Undergraduate Advising Team has missed you! Fall quarter is here and we are ready to see you and help you navigate being back on campus. We have a hybrid schedule, please use the appointment system to make an appointment, https://appointments.ucdavis.edu/default.aspx?office=39.

Congratulations to German Professor Elisabeth Krimmer, who has edited a new series of six books focusing on women and gender in German Studies!

Camden House Book Series Edited by Professor Elisabeth Krimmer
Women and Gender in German Studies focuses on the literary contributions of German-speaking women from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, as well as feminist approaches to canonical literature.